yes, i copied thurgood marshals' by nd he led the court step step.e argued cases when he told the court and not before the court today. >> and when they couldn't bear it anymore, signed her son's baseball bat and picked it up and put it over her head and the beginning of the murder prosecution. that's why they didn't put women on juries in those days. the supreme court said, we don't understand what the complaint is about. any woman who wants to serve can go to the clerk's office and sign up. if she doesn't sign up, she's not going to be called. the thinking was, if there were women on my jury, perhaps they wouldn't aquit me. but there is a good chance they would have convicted me of the lesser offense of manslaughter and not murder unless convicted and that was jury ok. that was 19 1. the change didn't come until the court that had the reputation to be conservative. nd yet, that court struck down one federal law after another, one state law after another on the ground that they discriminated ash temporarily on the basis of gender. charlie: what does

yes, i copied thurgood marshal'' -- and he led the court step by step.argued cases when he told the court and not before the court today. >> and when they couldn't bear it anymore, signed her son's baseball bat and picked it up and put it over her head and the beginning of the murder prosecution. that's why they didn't put women on juries in those days. the supreme court said, we don't understand what the complaint is about. considering where we were, considering that in 1961, the told thearren court woman we would today call battered, who had been humiliated to the breaking point by her philandering, abusive husband, she one day could not bear it anymore. signed her son's baseball bat and picked it up and put it over her head and the beginning of the murder prosecution. florida didn't put women on juries in those days. the supreme court said, we don't understand what the complaint is about. any woman who wants to serve can go to the clerk's office and sign up. if she doesn't sign up, she's not going to be called. the thinking was, if there were women on

>> it's right only to this extent-- we definitely copied thurgood marshall's method.y life was never in danger. thurgood marshall would go to a small town in the south, when he got up in the morning, he didn't know whether he'd be alive at night. i never-- my life was not in danger, as his was. >> rose: when you look at what happened after scalia died, the president wanted to appoint garland. he couldn't get it to bring to a vote. and so you're left with four and four. >> yes. four and four. eight is not a good number for a collegial body. at some times, disagrees. >> rose: what would you like to see the senate do? >> well, i would like to see the court have a full house by the time this term ends. >> rose: it is not often a first-time author naiks to number one on the "new york times" bestseller list. j.d. vance has done it with "hillbilly elegy" a memoir of a family and culture in crisis. it is a chronicle of white poverty, anguish, and anger. and it has found an audience among those seeking to understand the rise of donald trump. >> it's not to me, it's not so much

justice ginsberg: we definitely copied thurgood marshall's message.ded step-by-step all the way up to brown versus ford. -- brown against board. you have to declare separate but equal unconstitutional in all circumstances. but there is an enormous difference. during the 1970's when i was dealing with these gender discrimination cases -- charlie: most of them successful. justice ginsberg: my life was never in danger. thurgood marshall when he got up in the morning did not know. my life was never in danger. charlie: so courage for him. -- so a different kind of courage for him. justice ginsberg: enormous courage. the naacp, he headed the legal defense fund, it was the only show in town. if african-americans wanted to be represented, it was the naacp. when the women's movement was underway, it was more dispersed. there were more cases going to private lawyers, sometimes groups other than the aclu. charlie: when they talk about the women's movement and they talk about the legal argument in the architecture that helped prevail in the courts, they put you i

thurgood marshall argued separate but equal, isn't that before the court today? these schools are so plainly unequal. but i said i'm uneasy when people make that comparison, because it's a huge difference. and that is thurgood marshall's life was in danger when he went to a southern town to represent someone. my advocacy was a challenge, but my life was never in danger. another difference is people understood that racial discrimination was odious. but when i started out arguing cases, endeavoring to strike down arbitrary gender lines in the law, the judge to whom i was arguing had a hard time getting it because they thought of themselves as good husbands, good fathers, and they thought that women were on a pedestal, women were sheltered, they were protected. then justice brennan had that wonderful image that he used in the -- [inaudible] case -- >> one of your cases. >> yes. that all too often the pedestal turns out to be a cage. it protects women from achieving whatever they could based on their god given talents. so getting judges to understand that gender disc

thurgood marshall would go to a small town in the south. when he got up in the morning, he didn't know whether he would be alive that night. my life was not in cairng as his was. >> rose: so a different kind of courage for him? >> e-forms courage -- enormous courage. another thing, the naacp which he headed the legal defense fund, it was the only show in town. african-americans, if they wanted to be represented well, it was the naacp. when the women's movement was underway, it was more dispersed. there were cases coming to sometimes to private lawyers, sometimes to groups other than the u clu. >> rose: yeah, but i'm telling you when they talk about the the women's movement and the legal argument and the architecture that helped prevail in the courts, they put you at the front of that parade, and you know that. >> well, i was fortunate to have that position. and when i was a teacher at rutgers and deciding where i should affiliate, with what group should i affiliate, i picked the aclu because it's not women's rights, it's people's rights. it

jack when thurgood marshall hired him, the organization he would later lead. he grew up in new york city and served in the navy during word war ii, landing on the shore in iwo jima. he was troubled by the fact all the officers were white, all the stewards black. he went to law school to change the inequality he saw. still in his 20s, he argued two of the cases that led to the education. he would go on to argue 40 cases before the high court. when thurgood marshall became a supreme court justice in 1961, he named greenberg to succeed him as director of the defense fund. he held the position for 23 years. in 1963, greenberg was on the defense team for martin luther king jr., after king was james in birmingham. jack greenberg died at his home in new york this week. he was 91 years old. now in new caplets. it's the only cold & flu caplet that has a maximum strength formula with a unique warming sensation you instantly feel. theraflu. for a powerful comeback. new expressmax caplets. start the interview with a firm handshake. ay,no! don't do that! try head & shoulde

the state's first "harm reduction housing development" is opening in milwaukee.the thurgood marshall apartments are near 6th and brown.the 24 one-bedroom units will provide permanent, supportive housing for low-income adults who are chronically homeless and fighting the greater milwaukee area will get more federal help with its efforts to boost local manufacturing.for the second time -- the u.s. commerce department has designated 7 counties in southeastern wisconsin as a manufacturing community.'the milwaukee 7 initiative' first won the designation in 2014. the initiative is focusing on 3 industries - energy and power -- water technologies -- and food veterans and active military members looking for work.... should head down to 'the war memorial center' for a job employers are looking to hire those serving in the armed forces -- veterans and their immediate family members.the job fair runs until one this afternoon. still ahead... tested positive the local county that's seeing its first cases of the west nile virus.then... tracking the storm.. hurricane matthew making its way to the e

as far as technique, well, yes, i copied thurgood marshall's technique. he was a great lawyer. and he lead the court step by step to get brown v board. he argued cases, when he told the course, separate but equal is not before the court today. these facilities are vastly unequal. take the separate law school, university of texas had set up, when they knew they had to find, they had to have some legal training for african-americans, so they set up this vastly inferior law school. when he had his building blocks in place, then he made the big pitch. and so the women's right pros ject which i cofounded, that's what we tried to do, to get there. not in one giant step but so that by the time the big step came it would be inevitable because all the building blocks had led up to it. >> do you think we have reached that space, ruth? >> no. but considering where we were, considering then in 1961, the liberal warring court told wendel and hoyt, a woman we would today call battered, who had been humiliated to the breaking point by her fill anderring, abusive husband, she one day couldn't

record highs of 84 at bwi thurgood marshall. both of those will be tied or fall. not crystal clear skies like we have had in the last couple of days, but plenty of sunshine clouds. the warmest time will be 2:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m. this afternoon. a front getting close to the area this afternoon. maybe a shower west. then it drifts back to the north-northwest. that is where most of the showers will be tomorrow morning. shower chances to the west. a little bit of a breeze. 80's in most areas. cold front is on the march. it will start early friday morning. a probability of rain at times, up to 80%, especially after night as the rain finally shifts to the east. we could have wind gusts of 25-35 miles per hour in the area. high pressure building in from the great lakes. low pressure brings in this cold front. it could be a windy saturday, plenty of sunshine, but very windy indeed. 85 today. still around 80 tomorrow with a slight chance of a shower in the afternoon. friday, the chance up. very breezy friday night. partly cloudy and windy on saturday. highs in the 50's. that'

at baltimore washington thurgood marshall. the travelers can drop the phone is off there and get a refund for a new phone before boarding the flight. michelle: speaking of phones, the federal government reached $48 million settlement with the f.c.c. says t-mobile failed to tell customers about day sta restrictions on cell phone plans it called unlimited. the carrier slowed down connections for customers who hit the usage limit. jonathan: crime alert in fairfax county. police found a credit card skimming device. this isn't the exclusive spot they found. it was found attached to a cash register inside a wal-mart. there in front for everybody cashier found it before 5:00 yesterday afternoon. police say they are investigating this but no word at this point of how many victims there are, they don't know how long the skimmer was there. michelle: coming up next at 6:00 -- brad: votetrak 2016 is in philadelphia. we are talking politics and roast pork sandwiches. jonathan: it wasn't your imagination. we had record heat today. everythin

today, owe my goodness, record breaking highs at two of our airports at dulles and i thurgood marshal. look at these numbers, nothingtn else that happened at d.c., though. we didn't break any records there. very unseasonably warm with temperatures at least some 20-degrees warmer than it's's going to be tomorrow. reality check says as that frontal system moves through, tonight the cooler air is kicking in. we'll have more details a littld bit later.ebi back to you. > gwen, thank you. lets talk a little sports. last week the redskins let one get away. a trip to london and a chance to enter the break with a 5 record. womenly stadium. therewome you see it outside. kirk cousins would have a career day. believe it or not, third quarter, skins down ten, cousins finds jordan read turns it up up field and he keeps going, dives in for a 24-yard touchdown.hdow the deficit cut to three points. welcome back jordan read. son. crowder gets in anyway, 33 yards, the skins up 24-20, cousins 458 yards, 38 for 56, those are all career his, buts, the next, andy, left side, aj read, green makes the catch,,

lauds the careers of charles houston and thurgood marshall, and says people will know the names of charles houston and the good marshall for the rest of time. it is a great example of how learning and the conversations we have about civil rights have been impacted by the way it gets framed. right? people like dr. king and thurgood marshall understood the role of charles hamilton houston. at you cannot have conversation about the civil rights movement in the united states without the inclusion of the work of charles houston. >> i propose that no other nation shall have any chance to use our silence as an alibi for all teary or designs -- ulterior designs. i propose action now before it is too late. i propose it for the sake of a better world. i say again and again, i propose it for our own american self-interest. he first came to notoriety as one of the leading isolationists. he had been a crusader for world involvement,rican following wilson enthusiastically when wilson declared war on germany. like so many americans disillusioned happened -- with what happened after that. after mussolini

circuit and you clerked for justice thurgood marshall. when you talk about the importance of clerkships and what it meant to you to clerk for those two extraordinary justices? justice kagan: i was extraordinary lucky. clerking in general is a great thing to do. not everybody but for many people. it gives you a sense of how the law works, a different sort of sense than you have from law school and if you are like me, you have a chance to learn at the feet of people who have had terrific, exciting careers in law. i want to talk a little bit more about those two people and especially about justice marshall. you become a much better writer as a result. you learn a whole lot about how judges actually make decisions which notwithstanding you have gone through three years of reading judicial decisions, i think actually seeing how judges make decision is pretty eye-opening, at least it was for me. i felt as though just my legal analytic skills got a lot better. my writing skills got a lot better. and then i clerked for these two most amazing huma

. >> 1, 2, 3 -- [applause] joyce: with the cut of a ribbon, the thurgood marshall apartments opened today on sixth and brown. the site offers 24, one-bedroom units for low-income adults who ar suffer from chronic alcoholism. >> dignity in housing and dignity for human beings goes a long way, i think, in helping us address some of the challenges we face as a community. -- as a society. joyce: several groups came together to fund the initiative, which has a goal of ending chronic homelessness in milwaukee county by 2018. patrick: pokestops are going poof at lake park, vanishing from the popular pokemon go game. the area. as tim elliott reports new tonight, the county may have done something about it. tim: jennifer pauer plays pokemon go everyday, but late wednesday night, she noticed something strange. more than a half dozen pokestops mysteriously vanished from lake park. >> just let us know. work with us. help us out. you don't have to do this stuff under the cover of night. tim: pokestops are crucial to play the game, and lake park has niantic and the county are working together to push t

. >> do you think thurgood marshall kowtowed to the other court members? >> we lived in a different time then when we had presidents, when we had republican presidents -- >> i get your point. thank you, michael moore. when we return, my election diary on a race which suddenly looks weirdly unpredictable. this is "hardball," the place for politics. >>> election diary wednesday, october 26. i have a sense this election for president is being pulled in two ways, i'm not talking about the tension between donald trump and hillary clinton, that's natural, there's a different tension at work that's remarkable. the attention between a voter's impulse to vote their beliefs about the country and the tendency to vote or against a candidate based on his or her fitness for office. if i believe donald trump didn't have his history of personal misbehavior -- we all know the allegations -- and judged by the three main issues he's raised -- 11 million people in the country illegally, the bad war decisions, especially iraq, he would be running close to if not ahead of hilla

tremendous experience at different things that you don't have so you can understand-- that's like thurgood marshallthat. he said that he had, can which was correct-- experience that the others didn't have. >> rose: right. >> and it was valuable having that on a court. it's valuable having a wide range of experience. of course it is. and i would like to be able to write better than i can. >> rose: you said about justice scalia, you said he suffered from a good writer's disease. >> i have said that. i'd say a good writer, like a good comedian-- if he has a good joke, he's not going to give it up. the world could come to an end and show will he. he will not give it up. and the same is with a felicitous phrase. you find the felicitous phrase and he'll use and because the way it sounds. we all know that, and if it's aimed at us we don't take it personally. >> rose: his vacancy has not been filled. judge garland hab nopinated and will not be considered, and will not be considered perhaps until a new president takes over, perhaps after the election. what's the impact of 4-4? >> oh, 4-4, last year-- we hea

the state's first "harm reduction housing development" is opening in milwaukee.the thurgood marshall apartments are near 6th and brown.the 24 one-bedroom units will provide permanent, supportive housing for low-income adults who are and support food banks in milwaukee -- roundy's is donating close to 20-thousand- dollars in foods and funds today.five area food pantries will each be getting 37- hundred-dollars in support.the donation is taking place this morning -- at 10 at the midtown center off of capitol veterans and active military members looking for work.... should head down to 'the war memorial center' for a job fair today. more than 80 employers are looking to hire those servin forces -- veterans and their immediate family members.it runs from 9 a.m. until one p-m. again, that's at the war memorial center off of lincoln drive in milwaukee. up next on live at daybreak on today's tmj4--people living in the southeast u-s have already fled their homes in anticipation of hurricane matthews destructive path. a live report on what they're doing to pepare after the break...but first a

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of charles houston and thurgood marshall for the rest of time.s a great example of how learning and the conversations we have about civil rights have been impacted by the way it gets framed. right? people like dr. king and thurgood marshall understood the role of charles hamilton houston. but you cannot have a conversation about the civil rights movement in the united states without the inclusion of the work of charles houston. >> i propose that no other nation shall have any chance to use our silence as an alibi for ulterior designs. i propose action instead of words. i propose action now before it is too late. i propose it for the sake of a better world. but i say again and again, i propose it for our own american self-interest. >> arthur vandenberg first came to notoriety as one of the leading isolationists. he had been a crusader for world war i and american involvement, following wilson enthusiastically when wilson declared war on germany. like so many americans , he was disillusioned with what happened after that. after mussolini and hitler

when thurgood marshall became a supreme court justice in 1961, he named greenberg to succeed him as director of the defense fund. he held the position for 23 years. in 1963, greenberg was on the defense team for martin luther king jr., after king was james in birmingham. jack greenberg died at his home in new york this week. he was 91 years old. when cold and flu hold you back try theraflu expressmax, that has a maximum strength formula with a unique warming sensation you instantly feel. theraflu. for a powerful comeback. new expressmax caplets. start the interview with a firm handshake. ay,no! don't do that! try head & shoulders instant relief. it cools on contact, and also keeps you 100% flake free. try head & shoulders instant relief. for cooling relief in a snap. i had frequent heartburn, but...my doctor recommended prilosec otc 7 years ago, 5 years ago, last week. just 1 pill each morning. 24 hours and zero heartburn, straight years, and it's still recommended today. illinois' calling. calling the makers. the doers. those who prefer one-of-a-kind, to common fare. calling the endlessly c

thurgood marshall. you might wonder why it's so much cooler. the wind direction was out of the southeast blowing over the chesapeakeing bay and blowing marshall b.w.i. tonight we have partly cloudy skies. it's mild. great outdoor weather through the evening and the nighttime hours. upper 60's in the city by the morning. lower 60's in suburban area. if you get far enough west you could run into lightning. there is storm warning in effect for much of western pennsylvania for several hours. expectation that is the leading edge develops. like of thunderstorms that may develop. there are heavy storms north of charleston area. that is an area watched for the severe development over the next hour or two. more areas of rain. they are headed this way. probably around midday tomorrow according to the future cast. we see increasing cloudiness at times. winds from the southeast to keep us mild. through the morning at like 8:00, we have southeasterly winds. the clouds increase. the system will move in from the west. timing noon to 3:00 when we period of rai

that's like thurgood marshall saying that.id that he had, which was correct, experience that the others did not have. and it was valuable having that on the court. it is valuable having a wide range of experience. of course it is. and i would like to be able to write better than i can. i don't want to discourage people. there was a book review in the "l.a. times" of a book that i wrote on economic regulation. i am surprised you all are not very familiar with it. [laughter] justice breyer: but the reviewer, i don't know how it got into his hands. he said in "alice in wonderland," the dormouse begins to read from the history of england. why are you reading that, says alice. because the dormouse says we were wet, and this was the driest thing i know. [laughter] i have improved. charlie: but you also said about justice scalia, you said he suffered from a good writer's disease. justice breyer: i have said that. you have to be careful of that. the job of a judge in an appellate court is, in an opinion, to explain the reasons why he

check out the grand opening of the thurgood marshall apartments. the ribbon cutting event included guests county executive chris abele and mayor tom barrett. there are 24 apartments all providing permanent housing for homeless people -- struggling with alcoholism. located near 6th and reservoir, the apartments will provide on-site support 24 - seven. "milwaukee is making progress on this issue, faster than any because i think every society should be measured by how it seek to improve the lives of the most vulnerable." a number of community partners launched the plan in the summer of last year -- with a goal of ending chronic homelessness by 20-18. since -- abele says the county is on a better pace than they planned. milwaukee police are investigating a crash near hawley and park hill avenue morning. we're told two vehicles rolled over and the drivers of those cars took off. a third car was involved but its unclear if the car was damaged or if the driver was just a witness. officials believe speed could have been a factor. the investigation is ongoi

thurgood marshall and carter. mendez case was a case that was sought not by one family, not by one group. my hundreds of people of difference ethnic backgrounds and nationalities that all came together to end segregation. and i was one of those students for which the suit was filed along with 5,000 other latinos. imagine my surprise when i started going around speaking and find out we were more segregated now than we were in 1947. now they call it defective segregati segregation. the dictionary describes it as being an actual fact through not legal establishment, official establishment, official recogniti recognition -- it is a fact of life. and it does exist in all the big cities and where the majority of the population resides. in the two schools he mentioned that were names after my mother and father, are 100% latino. what does that tell you? that we're more segregated. as long as we have poverty, poor economics, no jobs, it will continue. i know for a fact that people are working and hard to get rid of it. unt

that standing in contrast to displays for justice thurgood marshall, which include pictures, history about his life and quotes from some of his opinions. a former white house attorney who helped to shepherd thomas through the process says it's fitting to honor marshal but not doing same for thomas is, in his words, a deliberate snub. >> clarence thomas has his own views. that's his sin. he believes in individual rights, not group rights. that led him to oppose racial presence. for that he is banished. in clear thought police, he disappeared. >> reporter: anita hill, who accused thomas of sexual ha harassment is featured. museum officials have not responded to questions about why thomas is virtually absent from this new museum. days ago, in an interview, rex ellis, the man responsible for planning and overseeing the collection said this about the museum's mission.s smithsonian reputation of bringing disspirited groups and opinions and ideas together to talk about and to grapple with in ways that are beneficial. >> reporter: a chicago tribune columnist who says thomas has spent the las

'64 and '65, and the one who signed a civil rights act, the voting rights act and appointed thurgood marshallthe supreme court. i think that's what her aspiration. and i think she is very well aware of what is ahead. so much unlike her opponent, donald trump. >> well, her opponent today came up with what he called a new deal for black america. let's listen to what he says the new deal for black america is with police. let's listen to this. >> we will also police our streets. have to make our streets safe. i want poor every poor african american child to be able the walk down the street in peace and not be scared and not be hurt. [ applause ] the problem is not the presence of police, but the absence of police. >> deray mckesson, your reaction to donald trump's new deal for black americans. >> i want to know who was in the room clapping, because it surely wasn't black people when he was talking about that. it is clear. people have already acknowledged that trump is racist. that he is campaigning on a platform of racism and bigotry, and when he says make america great again, it's about taking u

intervene, to the supreme court of the united states, the only one who seems to want to intervene as thurgood marshall enough analysis note thank you. at every level, everyone just turns away. >> these questions about a democracy. you literally have a presidential level of doubt. a conspiracy to cover up a lynching. i don't think it's too far to say that. you actually have evidence to demonstrate that is actually what happened. we don't live. what does that say? so many of our democratic institutions. it was so quick to not only allow this to happen very quickly turn the page. and asking how much truth can folks actually handle? how much actual reality cannot democrat institutions take? >> what you're really getting at is the question of who is a legitimate big and who really can have that intel is victimhood and put on them. one of our colleagues kahlil mohammed writes about blackness in his brilliant book and makes a lot of profound points. one of them is during prohibition as they begin to fill as more and more white folks and began to see prisoners people were appalled and wanted to go back a lot

that standing in contrast to displays for justice thurgood marshall, which include pictures, history about his life and quotes from some of his opinions. a former white house attorney who helped to shepherd thomas through the process says it's fitting to honor marshal but not doing same for thomas is, in his words, a deliberate snub. >> clarence thomas has his own views. that's his sin. he believes in individual rights, not group rights. that led him to oppose racial presence. for that he is banished. in clear thought police, he disappeared. >> reporter: anita hill, who accused thomas of sexual ha harassment is featured. museum officials have not responded to questions about why thomas is virtually absent from this new museum. days ago, in an interview, rex ellis, the man responsible for planning and overseeing the collection said this about the museum's mission.s smithsonian reputation of bringing disspirited groups and opinions and ideas together to talk about and to grapple with in ways that are beneficial. >> reporter: a chicago tribune columnist who says thomas has spent the las

marshall was the solicitor general a remember he said go up to the podium and for him if gsa iamb thurgood marshall represented is states of america is stunning. it is for him that was not true of me. law of women have said that. but, still that is fantastic to go up to the supreme court denies states to say i represent united states of america on extremely important legal issues. >> of course, that was the job you had for your. >> i would have liked to have had that for longer. >> it's not like you can say callback and if you years laugh laugh. >> kea were confirmed in record time you had your hearing june 28 confirmed august 6. >> it was really good time. second felt like it took forever. yes, it was great that happened so quickly. >> there was a law to do anything pretty much every senator 757 officers at the same time you were trying to prepare for your confirmation hearings there was a law. >> >> it didn't mind the process. >> there is one pending right now also you're not in the same time frame. so now the court is left for / four with is the impact? >> there is a reason why courts to not usu

i remember this one thing he said, he said to go up to that , to say i amr him thurgood marshall and i represent the united states of america was just a stunning thing. it was stunning for him in a way .hat it was not true of me lots of women had gone up and said, they represent them. to it is a fantastic thing go up to the supreme court of the united states and say i represent the united states of america on extremely important legal issues. i had a blast that year. that was theams: job you had for just a year. justice kagan: i would have liked to have had it for longer. but there you are. you can say, call back in a few years. you arewilliams: confirmed in record time, you are nominated may 52010 and you had your hearing on june 28, confirmed in august 6. justice kagan: is that record time? justice williams: it was really good time. was great thatit it happened so quickly. lot to do, you have to prepare a lot, you go on these courtesy visits to put a much every senator, i went to 75 senate offices to meet with senators at the same time as you're trying to prepare for your confirmat

and also two months later he would represent the board of education against linda brown and thurgood marshall john w davis who i'm sure did not vote for to win the award, two other judges do, john w davis one up to the three finalists and asked them to congratulate them and asked them to come an interview at his firm in new york. my uncle got neither a congratulatory handshake nor an offer to interview. 30 years later i graduated from that same institution in 1982. i had 1982. i had no honors like my uncle and i graduated thank you lottie. -- there is a reason for that. we pass laws, anti-discrimination laws. we encourage policies and practices from corporations to open up, to be more inclusive of women and racial minority. many families have been impacted by this. progress doesn't mean post-racial. i recognize the progress but it doesn't mean post-racial. when you look at what is going on today, the going on today, the inequities that exist today they are widespread, 18 - 1 in terms of wealth accumulation between black and white families today, 18 - 1 and that is worse than what existed in s

[applause] and of course, something i never master, the ability to give good speeches, but thurgood marshall could. some of you may know that i'm a fledgling painter. a struggling artist. i've a new appreciation for the artist whose boeing works are displayed here. people like robert duncanson, charles henry austin. our country is better and more vibrant because of their contributions and the contributions of millions of african americans. no telling of american history is neither complete nor accurate without acknowledging them. the lesson of this museum is that all americans share a past and a future. by saying true to our principles, encouraging the empowerment of all, we will be an even greater nation for generations to come. i congratulate all of those who played a role in creating this wonderful museum. may god bless -- playing a role in creating this wonderful museum. may god bless us all. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, stevie wonder. [applause] >> thank you so much. i have not seen it yet, but i'm going to. [laughter] i was born blind but i was blessed with a vision. the vision